Evolution Series
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Daily Post: Westward Freight in Wink of Sun
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CSX Q427 Claws Upgrade at Chester, Massachusetts. For me the old Boston & Albany West end is hallowed ground. This was the first true mountain mainline in the modern sense. The line was surveyed in the mid 1830s and by…
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Thursday’s Post: Boston & Albany Milepost 67, Brookfield, Massachusetts.
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Rusty Autumnal Foliage on October 26, 2013. Over the last few posts, I’ve alluded to this location at milepost 67. On the morning of October 26, 2013, I was up early. Before 8 am, I photographed at New England Central local…
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DAILY POST: East Brookfield, Massachusetts Moments Before Sunrise.
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A Broadside Pan of Modern Locomotives with Autumn Foliage. Early in the morning of October 22, 2013, I noticed that CSX’s Q422-22 was working the east end of Palmer yard. It was too dark to make a conventional image, and…
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CSX at East Brookfield, Massachusetts, June 26, 2013
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Ballast Train at Work On the evening of June 26, 2013, I arrived at East Brookfield to find Dennis LeBeau observing CSX’s undercutting operations immediately east of CP64. Over the last few years, CSX has been improving its former…